Posts in Experimental Platform Features

One of the founding principles of Microsoft Edge is that it is evergreen, with automatic updates to Windows 10 continually refreshing both Microsoft Edge itself and web content throughout Windows However, until recently, WinForms and WPF apps didn’t have access… Read more

A little over a year ago, we outlined our vision to bring Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) to the more than half a billion devices running Windows We believe PWAs are key to the web’s future, and couldn't be more excited… Read more

Last week, Microsoft welcomed thousands of developers from around the world to Build 2017, where we shared our vision for the future of dozens of products and Build featured a number of exciting sessions for developers building sites and apps… Read more

JavaScript performance is an evergreen topic on the With each new release of Microsoft Edge, we look at user feedback and telemetry data to identify opportunities to improve the Chakra JavaScript engine and enable better performance on real In this… Read more

Following the introduction of , we have been working with other browser vendors including Mozilla, Google, Apple, along with the rest of the WebAssembly community group, to push the performance boundary of the web with WebAssembly is a new, portable,… Read more

Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve begun development on experimental WebVR support in Microsoft Edge! WebVR is the next frontier in web graphics, enabling developers to create a wide range of truly immersive experiences for a variety of Innovative… Read more

Earlier this week, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update began rolling out to over 350 million Windows 10 With this release, we're proud to introduce EdgeHTML 14, the third and most significant update to the Microsoft Edge web platform since our… Read more

Today we’re excited to announce preliminary support for support in the real-time communications (RTC) stack in Microsoft Edge, as initially promised in our April roadmap You can preview this feature in Windows Insider Preview builds starting with EdgeHTML by navigating… Read more

Chakra, the recently open-sourced JavaScript engine that powers Microsoft Edge and Universal Windows applications, has been pushing the leading edge of ECMAScript language Most of ES2015 (aka ES6) language support is already available in Edge, and last week’s Windows… Read more

In February we shared our roadmap for empowering all Microsoft Edge customers through accessibility and inclusive Today, we’re excited to share more about Microsoft Edge’s native support for the modern UI Automation accessibility framework, coming with the Windows 10 Anniversary… Read more